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| Genre/Form: | Kapstadt (1999) Congresses |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Contested landscapes. Oxford, UK ; New York : Berg, 2001 (OCoLC)606587999 |
| Material Type: | Conference publication, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Barbara Bender; Margot Winer |
| ISBN: | 1859734626 9781859734629 1859734677 9781859734674 |
| OCLC Number: | 46433384 |
| Notes: | Proceedings of a landscape session at the World Archaeological Congress held Cape Town, South Africa 1999. |
| Description: | xvi, 372 p., 10 p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The shadow of the sacred rock: contrasting discourses of place under the Acropolis -- Matter and memory in the landscapes of conflict: the Western Front 1914-1999 -- Contested landscapes in Inner Mongolia: walls and cairns -- Negotiating the river: cultural tributaries in Far North Queensland -- Crannogs: places of resistance in the contested landscapes of early modern Ireland -- Landscapes of punishment and resistance: a female convict settlement in Tasmania, Australia -- Cultural keepers, cultural brokers: the landscape of women and children -- a case study of the town Dahab in South Sinai -- Whose new forest? Making place on the urban/rural fringe -- The political economy of landscape: conflict and value in a prehistoric landscape in the Republic of Ireland -- ways of telling -- Bringing contemporary baggage to neolithic landscapes -- Landscape and commerce: creating contexts for the exercise of power -- Pilgrimage and politics in the desert of Rajasthan -- Landscapes of separation: reflections on the symbolism of by-pass roads in Palestine -- Rites of passage: travel and the materiality of vision at the Cape of Good Hope -- Landscapes, fear and land loss on the nineteenth-century South African colonial frontier -- Places of longing and belonging: memories of the group area proclamation of a South African fishing village -- Homes and exiles: Owambo women's literature -- Egypt: constructed exiles of the imagination -- Migration, exile and landscapes of the imagination -- Hunting down home: reflections on homeland and the search for identity in the Scottish diaspora. |
| Other Titles: | Movement, exile and place |
| Responsibility: | edited by Barbara Bender and Margot Winer. |
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'[The editors] show that human activities shaped people's landscapes with the material worlds they have created.' New Scientist'Traditional landscape history ignores [the book's] central message at its mortal peril.'Landscape History '...The book succeeds in its presentation of landscape as the instantiation of people's engagement with the material world around them - the social tapestry of everyday life. For it is of everyday life accounts that this book is full. It is this plurality of voices, beliefs, memories, and practices that makes up a noteworthy collection of essays.'Alberto Corsin Jimenez, University of Oxford'[The authors] present a myriad of historical, cultural, political, and geographical viewpoints under a diversity of topics...the essays present powerful accounts of conflict in the human spirit.'Landscape Australia Magazine Read more...

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